SBP is monitoring the ongoing flooding and damage in South Louisiana and has committed to dedicating resources and technical assistance to communities in need.​If you have been impacted by recent flood events in Louisiana, South Carolina, Texas, Missouri or West Virginia , ​visit our Disaster Resilience & Recovery Lab resources page for important ​information.

About Disaster Resilience & Recovery Lab (DRRL):

Disasters are occurring more frequently and with more severity than ever before. In their wake, lives are shattered, homes are lost, businesses close, and communities struggle to recover. SBP founded the Disaster Resilience and Recovery Lab to change this. Through our experience rebuilding hundreds of homes, we’ve learned invaluable lessons and best practices, which we intend to share not only with impacted communities, but also with those at risk of major disasters such as hurricane, flood and tornado so that they can prepare and become more resilient.

We know that if individuals, businesses, and municipalities fully understand how to be resilient by mitigating risks before disasters, the suffering and damage disasters cause can be greatly reduced. Additionally, SBP’s extensive experience in recovery and rebuilding efforts following disasters in four communities shows that the SBP model is effective in enabling families and communities to realize a prompt, efficient and predictable recovery.

The Disaster Resilience and Recovery Lab (DRRL) consists of two training programs, one that develops resilience before disasters strike another that maximizes efficiency of the rebuilding and recovery effort after.

•Pre-disaster resilience training: DRRL works in vulnerable communities each year to provide resilience and risk mitigation training. In each community, SBP’s DRRL trainers work with three audiences--small to mid-sized businesses, homeowners, and municipalities. We work with these audiences to measure how our training changes behavior of participants to better prepare for disasters.

•Post-disaster recovery: In the immediate aftermath of a disaster, DRRL works with national and local disaster recovery organizations to implement the SBP rebuilding model. SBP’s model is unique both in its results and methods, which include collaboration with corporate partners, such as Toyota who have provided their Production System for day-to-day management of each current and prospective rebuilding project. Within this program, DRRL will partner with local recovery efforts in one of two ways: “Do” or “Teach”.

Do: Either as an immediate SBP initiative, or in partnership with recently-formed community organizations, SBP operates on-the-ground rebuilding programs.

Teach: Train other organizations to utilize SBP’s best practices and procedures, with the goal of enhancing the efficiency of those organizations.

Through DRRL, SBP will work to share lessons learned, prevent common barriers to recovery and help local, grassroots recovery organizations implement SBP's repeatable and proven-effective model. The SBP model is described in detail, in its Recovery Playbook, a toolbox for nonprofit recovery and rebuilding organizations, compiled with the help of Farmer's Insurance.

Additional important information and tools for homeowners can be found on the Resources page.